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[RandomlyAccessed] BBC joins Project Canvas IPTV group | Tech News | RandomlyAccessed ...: With anything the BBC does, there are a number of positives and negatives they have to consider, for example; how the new service will affect DVD rentals, pay-for-play subscription services as well as existing IPTV/regular TV hybrid services.

[Which? Consumer news] BBC Project Canvas given go-ahead for 2010 - Which? News: The first Project Canvas set-top boxes are likely to appear in late 2010, with predictions for their cost being around the £200 mark, although one of the conditions imposed on the BBC is that the platform must remain accessible without users paying a subscription fee.

[New Media Age - Breaking News] BBC Trust confirms approval of Canvas | News | New Media Age: Diane Coyle, chair of the Trust’s strategic approvals committee, said the role the BBC was to play in Canvas had also been carefully scrutinised.

[Telecom News on 4G, Wimax, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, mobile apps and OSS/BSS | Telecoms Europe] Project Canvas gets green light from BBC Trust | Telecoms Europe: BSkyB  corporate affairs director Graham McWilliam said “the key concern with Canvas is the leading role that the BBC wants to take in the project. Internet-based TV is already developing fast and, even without Canvas, the industry is working on shared standards to help it grow even further.

[Marketing Week - Latest News & Analysis] BBC gives provisional backing to Project Canvas | News | Marketing ...: However, BSkyB does not see the value of the initiative and Graham McWilliam, group director of corporate affairs, says:“The key concern with Canvas is the leading role that the BBC wants to take in the project.  Internet-based TV is already developing fast and, even without Canvas, the industry is working on shared standards to help it grow even further.

[whathifi.com News and Reviews] Project Canvas given the go-ahead - TV news - whathifi.com: It would see a range of set-top boxes developed to access on-demand TV services such as the BBC iPlayer and ITV Player. They're expected to cost around £200, and could be available next year.

[paidContent:UK] Canvas Approved: Benefits Outweigh Possible Slowdown In Pay-TV ...: The trust is placing some conditions on this, but they are either light or were already pledged by the BBC - publishing the technical specs to hardware makers, getting consensus on technical standards, giving content providers fair access, plus the trust will review whether Canvas will discourage the partners from syndicating their shows to other services.

[ExFn.com Daily Fresh News] Q&A: Canvas | ExFn.com Daily Fresh News: The BBC’s governing body, the has given the provisional go-ahead for the BBC to participate in Project Canvas - an attempt to develop a standard for internet-television services in the UK.

[Samknows Broadband] Samknows Broadband - » BBC places Trust in Project Canvas - for now: Engagement must be adequately sought within the industry, meaning amongst other things that the technical specifications Canvas adopts must be published “well in advance of launch” in order to make sure all manufacturers have enough time to adapt as they wish

[UK Cheap Broadband - Broadband News Podcast] Broadband TV Standard Being Set Up Under ?Project Canvas? |: The companies will be working together to create an entirely new brand, technical specification and standards committee called the Digital Television group, although BBC involvement in the project is still subject to the approval of the BBC trust. This could be big news for fans of IPTV services and free-to-air television alike, as services like Freeview and FreeSat will gain access to a huge amount of on demand content that has previously only been available via services like Virgin Media or through the internet.

[The Project Canvas blog] Project Canvas news roundup - 14 Dec | The (unofficial) Project ...: 24 Nov: Sky, in its third submission to the BBC Trust, again criticised Project Canvas: specifically the BBC's involvement; and that the relaxed condition of becoming a partner in the project - no longer is it .

[BBC Internet blog] BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Channel 4 and Talk Talk join Project Canvas: I hope the license payer will benefit from the money about to made from flogging off the BBC's "family silver" in the form of analogue spectrum. Perhaps renting its spare Band 4 spectrum for £1bn a year to cellphone companies who can practise their appalling directly-debited dark marketing arts on their victim customers, might be a nice way to fund the BBC using a form of stealth tax, applied at commercial arm's length?

[The Project Canvas blog] Related news roundup - 12 Dec | The (unofficial) Project Canvas ...: Broadband TV News article. Nov 27: The BBC released some detailed iPlayer usage statistics (likely in a bid to be seen to be more open, and also to demonstrate the appetitite for on-demand).

[Satellite TV support forum & Digital TV support forum.] BBC still angling for Sky Canvas collaboration - Satellite TV ...: "With the DTG working to create a common set of standards, and with the evidence of new services coming to market/in the pipeline, there is little justification for the BBC to invest public money in replicating something that is already being delivered," says that response.

[The Project Canvas blog] A provisional approval from the BBC Trust? | The (unofficial ...: We were hoping there’d be some news from the BBC Trust on Friday about their decision regarding Project Canvas. The Trust had a regular, scheduled meeting on Thursday, and in the past updates on the initiative have also tended to be right at the end of the week.

[BBC Internet Blog] BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Project canvas: an interview with Richard ...: Limit viewing to licence holders in the UK (or anywhere else) by all means - use a system that requires the licence number be input to the domestic receiver and all programmes received by each licence holder should have an un-removable licence number fixed into their stored datafile to prevent redistribution.

[Future Publishing Blogs] Ofcom and Sky square up f - What Satellite & Digital TV: good points Lee and Mark pity u didnt look into it before u commented the BBC owns 25% of Sky as they owned 50% of the old BSB, so Ofcom taking on Sky would also have to take on the BBC too and lets face it theres only really Sky that bids for the tv righs in the UK and what actually has Virgin Media and BT gone for in sport, the only thing BT has gone for is live football matches u can only watch an hour after the match as finished, im sorry but that doesnt cut it in todays pay tv....Now if Ofcom was going to pay Sky the differance so that Sky could other the other platforms at a lower price now that another matter now can u actually see Ofcom doing that!!!!!!

[paidContent:UK] BSkyB, Virgin Media Agree 'No Need For Project Canvas ...: Cuff added that VMED was open-minded about what platforms its content ends up on—as long as it can successfully monetise it. But an open platform IPTV standard is not part of its plan: “Canvas is a bit scary, because if someone’s giving it (the technology) away, then you worry about what happens to your own set-top box.”

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